AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

Ryzen 5 8500G vs Core Ultra 5 135U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 5 135U performs better than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 135U. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.